Another movie post? What the hell, it’s a slow week. I blame Amy and SR Mann for having fun vacationing and hanging out instead of being in the trenches with the rest of us. Neal is to blame as well as he has been a grouch (Which is to be expected since he was involved …
The outrageous signs were one thing. The absurdity of elevating Wendy Davis to heroine status for “taking a stand” for late term abortions was another. But now it’s gone from absurd to just outrageous: The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) today received information that individuals planned to use a variety of items or props …
On June 7th, the National Journal published Ron Fournier’s analysis of how the recent scandals surrounding the Obama administration are “threat[ening] to kill” the concept of “good government.” Fournier writes that these revelations bolster support for skepticism of government. He discusses how the NSA and IRS scandals have made the administration appear “intrusive,” “incompetent,” “corrupt,” “heartless,” …
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The new Farm Bill is set to come to a vote this afternoon. The bill was split between the farm subsidies (aka corporate welfare) portion and the food stamps portion. The portion that will be voted on is the farm subsidies portion. The CBO has released its budget figures on this bill and they’re a disappointment for fiscal …
Striking another blow for religious freedom, two Obama appointees and a Clinton appointee told Liberty University to get stuck regarding it’s opposition to Obamacare’s employer mandate: The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s employer mandate, setting the stage for another possible Supreme Court battle next term. …
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If you follow some political people on Twitter, you’ll know that there is a bit of a scandal involving Rand Paul and his new media director, Jack Hunter. The Free Beacon reported yesterday that Hunter has a history of inflammatory statements going back from his days as a radio shock jock in Charleston, South Carolina. …
Some time ago, I wrote a post about art and ideology. I stressed that conservatives should stop worrying about the “message” in the art that they create and concern themselves more with just creating great art. Movies fall under that same umbrella. Movies that have an agenda — for example Redacted, Fair Game, In The …
Back in May, we wrote here on PFoL about the court case against Apple Inc, in which the Department of Justice sued the technology company and five major publishers for deliberately manipulating prices of e-books. Today a federal judge ruled against Apple, claiming that with the release of the iPad in 2010, Apple coerced publishers …
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Everybody thought the biggest news last week about Obamacare was the delay in the employer mandate by one year. It was another blow to the unpopular law that President Obama considers to be his crowning achievement. Not to be outdone by that news, the Obama administration on Friday (of course!) released the following bombshell: On …
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This could be big. I’m not going to jump to any conclusions about who, what or why but authorities believe the train in Canada that has (so far) claimed 15 lives, was tampered with: Canadian authorities have found evidence that a train that crashed in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, was tampered with, provincial police Capt. Michel Forget …